Chapter 297 The prologue begins
Chapter 297 The Prologue begins
Although Hu Yunfeng asked that more transport planes be mobilized to air transport mercenaries to Varkenburg Airport at one time, Hu Yunfeng's proposal was obviously conducive to the actions of the German airborne troops. The commander of the German B Army B Army Bao Ke saw General Sponnik, commander of the 22nd Aircraft Surrender Division, and Studden, commander of the 7th Paratrooper Division, signaled to agree to Hu Yunfeng's plan. Bao Ke agreed to Hu Yunfeng's request.
The action will start in two days. After Hu Yunfeng reached an agreement with Bao Ke, Sponnik and Studente, they will immediately prepare.
Since Poland, Sweden, Finnish and Russian soldiers in the mercenaries did not have time to conduct parachute training, the mercenaries must also raid the Varkenburg Airport by the Soviet port and German soldiers first parachute the airport, and then land the mercenaries who have not received parachute training to land the airport.
After Hu Yunfeng bid farewell to Baoke, Sponnik and Student, he immediately reorganized two thousand mercenaries, 600 Soviet ports and German soldiers who could parachute down formed a parachute assault camp, and the other four nationalities formed three parachute battalions, including Li Chenglin, Liu Chengyue and Wu Chengming as battalion commanders, and the parachute assault camp was led by himself.
Simon Haye and Iyu Koskinen, who were called "White God of Death" by the Soviet army, have recovered after more than two months of treatment and have already arrived at the mercenary. Hu Yunfeng promoted Simon Haye to lieutenant colonel, and Iyu Koskinen was also promoted to major, and they were the chief and deputy captains of the fifty-man sniper team respectively.
On May 8th and on the morning of the 9th, Hu Yunfeng carried the parachute assault battalion for five simulated airborne times, and let the mercenaries rest for an afternoon. After dinner in the evening, Hu Yunfeng assigned tasks to all mercenaries. The mercenaries calmly accepted the task of attacking Varkenburg, the Netherlands and the Dutch capital The Hague, which made Hu Yunfeng very satisfied.
At nine o'clock in the evening, Hitler issued a raid order to the German 7th Paratrooper Division and the 22nd Aircraft Surrender Division. Previously, Hitler had issued 11 orders to prepare for the raid to the Netherlands, but they all canceled the order before the plane took off. This time, General Student and General Sponnik did not know whether the 12th order would be cancelled at the last moment. They kindly reminded Hu Yunfeng.
Of course, Hu Yunfeng will definitely execute this order tonight. He told General Stuttendant and General Sponnik with great certainty.
To be honest, Hu Yunfeng was very grateful to them in the past two days. In order to allow the mercenaries to conduct the final simulation test training, the two German generals not only stopped their troops from the final drills in the past two days, but also helped Hu Yunfeng a lot. Hu Yunfeng proposed to require enough mortars to strengthen firepower, and they immediately took out fifty mortars to support Hu Yunfeng.
Of course, Hu Yunfeng also thanked Hitler and General Bauk for the very interesting. In order to transport two thousand mercenaries to the airspace of Varkenburg at a time, Hitler urgently called 300 aircraft from the reserve team for mercenaries. In fact, Hu Yunfeng only needed 250 aircraft, but Hitler hoped that the mercenaries could create the miracle of airborne Warsaw, occupy the Hague as soon as possible, and prompted the Netherlands to surrender, creating favorable conditions for annihilation of the British and French troops. Therefore, Hu Yunfeng, in addition to thirty mortars and ammunition, also equipped with twenty No. 1 tanks. Hu Yunfeng did not want to repeat the history of the failure of the German airborne attack on Theater. Due to insufficient firepower and military strength, the Dutch army successfully counterattacked.
In the early morning of May 10, German air forces attacked more than 40 airports in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and seized air supremacy after two hours of fierce air battle. At 3:30 am, the German army carried out aviation fire preparations on Val Port, The Hague, Amsterdam, Sylvisam and other places in the Netherlands.
At 4 o'clock, Hu Yunfeng took 75 Junker-52 transport planes with his untamed special forces and the parachute battalion. Under the escort of fighter jets, he took off from Münster Night Airlines Airport. The fleet crossed the Dutch border, crossed the plains, passed the Gorebi-Pierre defense line in the Netherlands, and when flying to the coast, he lowered the flight altitude to 30 meters for an ultra-low altitude flight. When he flew to the river interweaving area north of the Hague, the plane climbed to 180 meters and flew to Varkenburg Airport north of the Hague.
"General, our bombing will be completed soon on the airport's aviation fire preparations, and we have entered the target area." The pilot of the Juncker-52 transport plane, carrying Hu Yunfeng and the Special Forces, reported when he saw the last batch of bombs dropped by the bomber prepared for the fire. The bomber had turned back and returned.
"We are ready." Hu Yunfeng looked at the special forces members who were not the first to implement it, as well as Lin Xinxin and Jibchuhe, and saw their confident expressions and said to the pilot.
"Airborne can be carried out in thirty seconds." The pilot said loudly.
Hu Yunfeng and everyone were ready. When they counted silently for twenty-five seconds in their hearts, the cabin door opened, and Hu Yunfeng made a victory gesture and jumped first.
The German bombers made sufficient firepower preparations in advance. Hu Yunfeng, the special forces members and the parachute assault battalion were almost not attacked by the Dutch airport guards before landing. As in history, Hu Yunfeng quickly observed the situation in Varkenburg Airport after landing.
Hu Yunfeng was unbelievable that many cars were parked on the airport runway as obstacles and other miscellaneous things. Damn, the Dutch should have obtained information in advance or determined that the German army would carry out airborne to seize the airport, Hu Yunfeng cursed inwardly.
The aircraft landing troops behind will arrive in half an hour. Within half an hour, the Dutch airport guards at the airport will be eliminated and obstacles will be eliminated. Hu Yunfeng immediately issued an order to collect the parachute assault battalion to the special forces.
Since the parachute was not attacked by the Dutch defenders during the parachute, the special forces team members disturbed the parachute assault revenue in just ten minutes. Hu Yunfeng issued another order: "Fifteen minutes, you only have fifteen minutes to clear the Dutch airport defenders and clean the runway for me."
"Yes." The soldiers of the parachute assault battalion roared.
There is only one company of the Dutch airport guards at Varkenburg Airport. Although they set up bunkers around the airport, they just gave the mercenary "Iron Fist" 40 Rocket Jane the opportunity to play.
The Dutch expected the German army to raid the airport and also prepared on the runway. However, from the panic of the Dutch defenders, it can be seen that the Dutch did not expect the German army to use parachute to seize the airport. After the "Iron Fist" 40 rocket Jane destroyed the three bunkers in the direction of the mercenary's attack, the Dutch retreated into the airport in panic. At this time, the role of mg42 was highlighted, and the Dutch came out of the bunker suddenly became the prey of mg42. mg42 made a "silent..." sound, swallowing the lives of the Dutch defenders.
In just seven minutes, Hu Yunfeng led the mercenaries to the airport. Hu Yunfeng immediately ordered: "Don't worry about the escaped Dutch army, Lin Xingguo, Zhou Weitao, Tang Liang, Chen Sixi, you each bring a platoon to find the surrounding anti-aircraft artillery positions to destroy them. The others will clear the runway immediately."
Lin Xingguo, Zhou Weitao, Tang Liang, and Chen Sixi took the order and left. Hu Yunfeng said to Lin Xinxin again: "Send a newspaper to the crew and General Bao Ke immediately. We have controlled the Varkenburg Airport."
"Captain, there are 43 trucks on the four runways." Fifteen minutes later, Liang Han flew over and said.
"This is the best gift for the Netherlands to prepare us for attacking The Hague. Go and find me gasoline to fill up the gasoline." Hu Yunfeng nodded and smiled. The mercenaries were moving very fast and he was very satisfied.
"Yes." Liang Hanfei ran away.
"Strange hooligan, the walkie-talkie can contact the plane." Jibchuhe handed the words to Hu Yunfeng and said.
Hu Yunfeng took the conversation and Li Chenglin's voice came from inside, saying, "Captain, we will arrive in a few minutes. Can the airport land?"
Hu Yunfeng said: "Yes."
"Captain, General Sponnik temporarily sent 75 planes to follow us. He came with the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 22nd Aircraft Surrender Division." Li Chenglin said again.
"I understand." Hu Yunfeng handed the words to Jibu Chuhe, looking at the direction they came.
Because there were too many planes to land, when all the mercenaries landed on the ground safely, it was already past seven o'clock in the morning. While Hu Yunfeng was sorting out his troops, General Sponnik's plane also landed on the ground.
"General Hu, the airport has been handed over to my troops. You can attack The Hague." Sponnik looked at the efficient mercenaries and looked admirable. What surprised him was that the mercenaries actually got twenty-four anti-aircraft guns and nearly seventy cars. In addition to the twenty tanks transported over, Hu Yunfeng's mercenaries were already mechanized.
"Good luck!" Hu Yunfeng shook hands with Sponnik, and saw him looking at the anti-aircraft cannon. Hu Yunfeng smiled, but was not prepared to leave the anti-aircraft cannon for Sponnik to guard the airport. With anti-aircraft cannons and tanks, Hu Yunfeng was more sure of capturing The Hague.
"Good luck!" Sponnik said with a German military salute.
"Get on the car, if you don't have a seat, get a tank for me." Hu Yunfeng returned a military salute and got on the truck's order.
In order to allow Hu Yunfeng to successfully capture The Hague, General Bao Ke, commander of the German B Army, specially allocated twenty tanks and tank soldiers to mercenaries. This not only liberated the special forces members, but also made the tanks really play a role. Hu Yunfeng and the special forces members could only drive tanks and let them fire artillery, that is, cannons hit mosquitoes - blindly, hitting the target with luck, but not wasting shells.
Seeing Hu Yunfeng leaving with his mercenaries, Sponnik shook his head and said, "Poor Holland, poor Theatre, will be robbed by these robbers again."
Chapter completed!